Daily Devotions
Daily devotions is a precious time "devoted" to spending time with my Creator in prayer, praise, and study of His word. I value the "lessons" that He teaches me during this time and it has been my desire to share what He is teaching me with those I come in contact with. Through the wonderful tool of the internet, I can now share in a new way.
My intent is to actually post what I've learned "daily", however, it has been my experience, and an actual fact, that whenever time is preserved for my God, there is a counter force at work with intent on disruption or distraction.
My prayer is that I will continue to stay focused and continue on a DAILY basis in His Word and His purpose for me. My prayer is also for you. That you too remain strong and devote time in your day to get to know your Creator more and more. Take care and God bless.
The House that God Built
“Grandpa” as we fondly refer to him, approached me as I was pruning bushes and started, “Did I ever tell you…” Now this usually led to a story that I had heard many times before but still enjoy listening to, but this time, the story was different. “We had a good prune crop that year...$18,000..it was enough to pay for the house….didn’t cost a whole lot to build a house back the..but the prune crop paid for it.”
“God is good isn’t He Grandpa,” I replied.
“God IS good” he agreed.
I don’t think he realized what an encouragement he was for me, for just the week before I started questioning just HOW we were going to afford to build this house we’ve been planning for four years now. Our income had been cut in half while our bills were increasing and I had forgotten for a moment just how big our God really is.
Our “prune crop” was eating hay in the barn.
Monday evening as I was driving home from bible study with the girls, I was thinking about the lesson that evening. Pray specifically, then you will KNOW it is God at work. So I began calculating…. Permit, excavation, foundation, 3rd mortgage(yuk), framing, (lumber),roofing, siding,... WOW... we would need ALOT to just get started. How in the world could this be possible, but I knew with God all things were possible.
Okay God, THIS, is what we will need I prayed.
It was as though He had been waiting for me just to ask, for by Wednesday afternoon, two of our horses were sold and as a result, our 3rd mortgage was gone.
God is good isn’t He..I thought to myself, yes, God IS good.
Now I do not believe in a God that, as a personal genie grants our every wish, but in a God that desires a personal relationship with His children just as any father would.
As Jesus said,” If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.” Matthew 21:22
We broke ground on our home in the fall of 2006 and have prayed through each trial as it has surfaced. Even the securing the financing to build was a miracle from God. My prayer for you is that you too will know that despite the trial before you, our God is bigger than anything you face.
It has now been a year and we have not yet made the move into the new house. As a lesson in patience we are still living literally in the shadow of our new home. So this story is "To be continued..."
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